August 14-18, 2004
New York City, NY

Scientific Program

Saturday | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday

Saturday, August 14:

Pre-Meeting Workshop
RNA Interference (small RNAs): Applications to neural systems Organizer: Nicholas Ingoglia

Sunday, August 15:

BNL Basic Neurochemistry Lecture: What the gonads and adrenals tell the brain…and why? Speaker: Dr. Bruce McEwen

Symposia

S1 Lipid rafts in neural plasticity and disease Organizer: Mark Mattson

S2 Cytoskeletal mechanics and axonal growth Organizer: Peter Baas

S3 The neurochemistry of ionotropic receptor trafficking Organizer: Claude Wasterlain

LUNCH: Meet the Speakers Roundtable.
OR1 Oral Presentations		Myelin, Oligodendrocyte, and Schwann Cell Biology Session organizer: Karen Chandross
Poster Sessions
AP1		Steroids and the Nervous System
AP2		Cell Death and Survival
AP3		Exocytosis
AP4		Hypoxia, Ischemia
AP5		Neurotoxicity, Neuroprotection
AP6		Nitric Oxide
AP7		Receptors

Symposia/Workshop

S4 Aging-associated cognitive dysfunction: Coping with perturbations to homeostasis Organizer: Regino Perez-Polo

S5 The role of complement in the brain: the good and the bad Organizers: Jessy Alexander & Scott Barnum

W1 Glutamate, the most promiscuous molecule in the CNS Organizers: Mary McKenna & Helle Waagepetersen

Monday, August 16

PL Plenary Session: Mechanisms of hippocampal memory Speaker: Dr. Susumu Tonegawa

Symposia

S6 Marian Kies Symposium Junctional complexes in the nervous system in health and disease Organizer: Heather Duffy

S7 Regulation of translation in synaptic plasticity and memory Organizer: Eric Klann

S8 New aspects of GABA homeostasis Organizers: Susan Hutson & Ursula Sonnewald

LUNCH: Meet the Speakers Roundtable.
OR2 Oral Presentations		Regulation of Glutamate Neurotransmission and Cellular Energetics Session organizer: Sandra Hewett
Poster Sessions
BP1		Aging
BP2		Development, Differentiation
BP3		Neuropsychiatric Diseases
BP4		Learning and Memory
BP5		Microglia
BP6		Alzheimer’s Disease
BP7		Neuroimmunology
BP8		Stem Cell Biology
BP9		Multiple Sclerosis, EAE

Symposia/Workshop

S09 Molecular cues directing progenitor cell migration & differentiation: Can we enhance these processes in the diseased nervous system? Organizers: Karen Chandross & Jean Merrill

S10 Degradation and repair of myelin: role of proteases and complement Organizer: Carmela Abraham

W2 New therapies and insights on inherited neurological storage diseases Organizer: Tom Seyfried

Tuesday, August 17

PL Plenary Session: Making axons regrow in the injured adult Speaker: Dr. Martin Schwab

Symposia

S11 Jordi Folch-Pi Symposium: Dopamine-serotonin interactions in psychosis and antipsychotic drug actions Organizer: Frank Tarazi

S12 Neuroplasticity and recovery after brain injury Organizer: Wendy Kartje

S13 The role of mitochondria in neurodegeneration Organizer: M. Flint Beal

LUNCH: Meet the Speakers Roundtable.
OR3 Oral Presentations		Molecular Mechanisms of Neuroinflammation - Neurodegeneration Session Chair: Monica Carson
Poster Sessions
CP1		Astrocytes and C6 Cells
CP2		Gene Expression, Regulation
CP3		Spinal Cord Injury, Axonal Regeneration, Plasticity
CP4		Neurotransmitters
CP5		Myelin, Oligodendrocytes
CP6		Neuronal-Glial Interaction
CP7		Tropic Factors and Cytokines

Symposia/Workshop

S14 Stroke: Inflammation in the neurovascular unit Organizers: Eng Lo & Thomas Jacobs

S15 Polyunsaturated fatty acids in the developing and in the pathologic brain Organizer: Ephraim Yavin

W3 Old and new players in myelin assembly, Special Workshop in Memory of Pierre Morell Organizer: Patrizia LoPresti

Wednesday, August 18

OR4 Oral Presentations		Estrogen and Ethanol’s Effects on Inflammation, Neurodegeneration, and Gene Expression Session Chair: Krishan Dhandapani
Poster Sessions
DP1		Epilepsy and Seizures
DP2		Gangliosides
DP3		Lipid Metabolism
DP4		Neurodegenerative Diseases: Parkinson’s Disease & Others
DP5		Oligodendrocytes & Schwann Cells
DP6		Signal Transduction
DP7		Transporters

PL Plenary Session: The neural crest: A celltype with both face and nerve Speaker: Dr. Marianne Bronner-Fraser

Symposia

S16 FGFs, old molecules, new tricks Organizers: Rashmi Bansal & Terri Wood

S17 New discoveries in the genetics of human epilepsy Organizer: Richard Olsen

S18 Oxidative stress in neurodegenerative diseases: cause or consequence Organizer: Mark Smith

LUNCH: Meet the Speakers Roundtable.

Symposia/Workshop

S19 Involvement of lipids in apoptosis and clearance of neuronal cells Organizer: Probal Banerjee

S20 Environmental and genetic interactions in neurodegenerative diseases Organizer: Wenzhen Duan

W4 Radial glia: lord of CNS development – the one cell to rule them all Organizer: Sean Liour